Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology
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26 February, 2020Chester King
Chester is the CEO of the British Esports Association, the national body for esports in the UK. The Chair is Andy Payne, OBE and Vice-Chair is The Rt. Hon Ed Vaizey (former Minister of Culture). The UK Government gave authority for it to be established in January 2016. It is an independent, not-for-profit, organisation whose […]
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Jeremy King
After an initial career in merchant banking, Jeremy King has been in the restaurant business since 1975. During his time at Joe Allen’s he met Chris Corbin and they launched a business partnership which has lasted over 30 years. They acquired Le Caprice in 1981. The Ivy was subsequently secured in 1990 and was hugely […]
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Justin King
Justin joined Terra Firma as Vice Chairman and Head of Portfolio Businesses in September 2015. Justin advises the boards of the General Partners and is a partner in Terra Firma’s Management Committee. He was previously the CEO of Sainsbury’s between 2004 and 2014, where he led the business through a major turnaround which led to […]
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Robert Kilgour
Robert is a Scottish serial entrepreneur, investor and property developer who founded Four Seasons Health Care in 1988, opening its first care home in May 1989 in Fife in Scotland. He left the company in early 2000 when it was operating 101 care homes and employing around 6,500 staff, the UK’s fifth largest care home […]
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James Kidner
James Kidner has been working in technology start-ups for the last five years – first with Improbable, who make platforms for games and simulations; then, since 2019, with Rebellion Defence, who build Artificial Intelligence tools for the Armed Forces. This followed three decades in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and in other Whitehall positions, including […]
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Jon Khoo
Jon Khoo is an Innovation Partner at Interface with a focus on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Following a former career as a city lawyer, Jon joined Interface in 2012 having chosen to reapply his skills to tackle the global challenges of marine plastics, inequality and climate change. Jon works on Interface and the Zoological […]
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Chris Kenny
Chris, who originally comes from Barnsley, started his career as a Civil Servant working with Ministers in the Department of Health and the Treasury. Waiting lists, community care, consumer rights in healthcare, economic reform in Russia and the war in former Yugoslavia were among the issues he dealt with. He then started to regulate telecoms, […]
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Andy Kent
If you’ve not met Andy before he could arguably be Britain’s most energetic tech entrepreneur. He is founder and CEO of Angel Solutions, a Liverpool based software agency established in 1999. This Ringmaster and his team of 50 (and growing) create innovative products out of an award winning circus themed office! Andy was in the […]
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Edward Kemp
I got interested in writing first very young and then started writing for theatre at about the age of 14 at school in Worcester. I joined the National Youth Theatre and at 16 won a prize in the Texaco Playwriting Competition for a play subsequently staged at Chichester Festival Theatre. I studied English at Oxford […]
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Dr Anna Keay OBE
Anna Keay is a writer, historian and curator, with a special interest in 17th-century British history. Anna became Director of Landmark in July 2012, following two years as a Trustee. Born in the West Highlands of Scotland, Anna was educated at Oban High School in Argyll and Bedales in Hampshire and read history at Magdalen […]